Just Gaming (Volume 20) (Theory and History of Literature) - Softcover

Lyotard, Jean-Francois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816612773 ISBN 13: 9780816612772

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1985

Synopsis

Book by Lyotard, Jean-Francois

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From the Back Cover:

This book considers the possibility of ethical political practice after deconstruction. Both authors probe the relationship of language to truth and the consequences, for ethics and politics, of any theoretical posture on this issue: 'Can we have a politics without the Idea of justice? and if so, can we do so on the basis of opinion?'

About the Author:

The late Jean-Francois Lyotard was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and Professor of Humanities at Emory University. Stanford has published two other books of his: " Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime "(1994) and" The Inhuman: Reflections on Time "(1992).

Samuel Weber is Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University.

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Montreal. He is the author of "Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation" and "A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari "(MIT Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0816612773
• ISBN 13: 9780816612772
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136